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More Tropes Cool Old Lady Yandere Overprotective Dad What You Are in the Dark Curb-Stomp Battle Left the Background Music On Casting Gag Gone Horribly Right Not Quite Dead Papa Wolf Police are Useless Unspoken Plan Guarantee Artistic License – History The Vamp How We Got Here Decoy Protagonist Shower Scene Fourth Date Marriage Immune to Bullets Properly Paranoid Whole Plot Reference Spiritual Successor Interrupted Suicide Disappeared Dad Broken Pedestal Totally Radical In Name Only You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Stuff Blowing Up The Sociopath The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Works Set in World War II Dying Moment of Awesome Precision F-Strike As Himself Danny Peary Cult Movies List B-Movie The Casanova Romantic False Lead Death by Sex Double Entendre Anti-Hero Freudian Excuse Belligerent Sexual Tension Your Head A-Splode Coming-of-Age Story Logo Joke Christmas Movies Index Adapted Out No-Sell Take a Third Option Fatal Family Photo And I Must Scream Wham Shot Amoral Attorney British Films Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sequel Escalation Male Frontal Nudity Suspiciously Specific Denial Amusing Injuries Does Not Like Shoes "Shaggy Dog" Story Straight Gay Retired Badass Cowboy Cop Alas, Poor Villain Eureka Moment One-Word Title Protagonist Title Ungrateful Bastard Deus ex Machina Revenge Establishing Character Moment Bilingual Bonus Neck Lift Ironic Echo Military and Warfare Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Mad Scientist Skewed Priorities Oh, Crap! Knight Templar Foreshadowing Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Central Theme Blood from the Mouth Artistic License – Geography Tagline Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun As the Good Book Says... Random Events Plot Corrupt Corporate Executive Villain Opening Scene Beard of Evil Blatant Lies Vomit Discretion Shot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sole Survivor Half the Man He Used to Be Only in It for the Money Closed Circle Rich Bitch Broken Aesop Knife Nut Getting Crap Past the Radar Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Action Survivor Line-of-Sight Name Badass in a Nice Suit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Karma Houdini The Ditz Eiffel Tower Effect Manly Tears Intrepid Reporter Neck Snap Hair-Trigger Temper Bad "Bad Acting" The Starscream Beauty Is Never Tarnished The '90s Foil Redshirt Army Implacable Man Science Fiction Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dark Is Not Evil Corpsing The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Gun Safety No Antagonist Pre-Mortem One-Liner Breaking the Fourth Wall Wrong Genre Savvy Death Glare Better to Die than Be Killed Never Trust a Trailer All Men Are Perverts Did Not Get the Girl Morality Pet Break the Cutie The Bad Guy Wins You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Australian Movies Diabolus ex Machina Creative Closing Credits The '50s Cold-Blooded Torture Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Names to Run Away from Really Fast Villain with Good Publicity Hate Sink Bond Villain Stupidity Rasputinian Death Hope Spot No Ending Epic Movie Call-Forward Serial Killer Captain Ersatz Time Skip Humiliation Conga Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Bully Celebrity Paradox Rewatch Bonus Death by Adaptation Bound and Gagged Calling the Old Man Out Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Call-Back Psychopathic Manchild Bloody Hilarious Only One Name Death of a Child Our Zombies Are Different Bottomless Magazines Poor Communication Kills Heel Realization Product Placement Taking You with Me Mythology Gag Bloodier and Gorier Ripped from the Headlines A Father to His Men Worthy Opponent Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gratuitous English Actually Pretty Funny Femme Fatale Italian Films Film Noir Index Suspiciously Similar Substitute Arc Words Catch-Phrase Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Mundane Made Awesome The Musical Break the Haughty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing NO INDOOR VOICE From Bad to Worse Fire-Forged Friends Adults Are Useless Running Gag Mexican Standoff Refuge in Audacity Developing Doomed Characters A.I. Is a Crapshoot Chewing the Scenery Men Are the Expendable Gender Obstructive Bureaucrat Girl-on-Girl Is Hot It Can Think Karmic Death Darkest Hour Playing Gertrude Loads and Loads of Characters Dwindling Party The '60s Mooks The Ghost All for Nothing My God, What Have I Done? Unusual Euphemism Alliterative Name Five-Man Band Depraved Bisexual Unreliable Narrator A God Am I Token Minority Slasher Smile Eagleland Those Wacky Nazis Ambiguous Disorder Reasonable Authority Figure World of Ham Distracted by the Sexy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Damsel in Distress Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Betty and Veronica Destination Defenestration Gender Flip Villainous Breakdown Dark Reprise Cloudcuckoolander Off-into-the-Distance Ending Action Prologue Show Within a Show Shut Up, Hannibal! Butt-Monkey Face Death with Dignity Black Best Friend Author Avatar Greater-Scope Villain Gold Digger Vitriolic Best Buds "The Reason You Suck" Speech Police Brutality The Mole Extremely Short Timespan Scenery Porn Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Victoria's Secret Compartment Dropped a Bridge on Him Paper-Thin Disguise The Hero As You Know Missing Mom Villain Protagonist Funny Foreigner Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Dirty Cop '80s Hair Smoking Is Cool Historical Villain Upgrade Bring My Brown Pants Country Matters Artistic License – Law Stalker with a Crush War Is Hell Evil Brit Undying Loyalty Take That! Determinator aka: The Determinator The X of Y And the Adventure Continues Adaptation Name Change Sanity Slippage Genre Savvy Crazy Jealous Guy May–December Romance The Stoner Tap on the Head Leaning on the Fourth Wall Evil Is Hammy Kill 'em All Big Bad Duumvirate Index of Film Westerns Dogged Nice Guy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Stealth Hi/Bye Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bolivian Army Ending Martial Arts Movie You Killed My Father All There in the Script Offscreen Teleportation Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Catapult Nightmare Handicapped Badass Hypocritical Humor Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Video Credits Broken Bird Major Injury Underreaction Fish out of Water Our Vampires Are Different Unwitting Instigator of Doom Actor Allusion Obviously Evil Reality Has No Subtitles Reality Is Unrealistic Vampire Fiction Arranged Marriage Hollywood Darkness Pretty in Mink Villain Ball Everyone Has Standards Big Fancy House Black Comedy Rape Adaptation Dye-Job It Will Never Catch On Gorn Russian Films Important Haircut The Alleged Car Awesome, but Impractical Genre Shift Hoist by His Own Petard He Knows Too Much Idiot Ball I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Parental Abandonment Authority Equals Asskicking Ascended Extra Leitmotif Artistic License – Biology Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ambiguous Ending I Need a Freaking Drink Meaningful Background Event Maybe Ever After Manipulative Bastard Once More, with Clarity! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crucified Hero Shot Earn Your Happy Ending Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Obfuscating Stupidity Scary Black Man Stepford Smiler Unusually Uninteresting Sight Creator Cameo Insult Backfire Gainax Ending Red Right Hand Fan Disservice Well-Intentioned Extremist Heroic BSoD What Happened to the Mouse? Exact Words The Power of Love Animal Title Index Spiteful Spit Soundtrack Dissonance Imagine Spot What the Hell, Hero? 20 Minutes into the Future Adaptational Attractiveness Determinator Your Cheating Heart Crapsack World Children Are Innocent The Voiceless Film Noir Adult Fear Mood Whiplash Sacrificial Lion Humans Are Bastards Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Adaptation Expansion My Beloved Smother Boom, Headshot! Bar Brawl Big-Bad Ensemble Thriller Toplessness from the Back He Who Fights Monsters After the End Comically Missing the Point Instant Death Bullet Hidden Depths Mr. Fanservice Adaptational Villainy timeperiod Title Drop Motor Mouth Race Lift Moment Killer Death by Irony Rated M for Manly Chekhov's Gunman Body Horror Market-Based Title Lighter and Softer Kids Are Cruel Hypocrite Grey and Gray Morality Funny Background Event Every Car Is a Pinto Honor Before Reason Anachronism Stew Sequel Hook Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Light Is Not Good Pet the Dog Fun with Acronyms Last-Name Basis Fingore Wretched Hive Babies Ever After Author Appeal Faux Affably Evil Tempting Fate Big Damn Heroes The '70s Curse Cut Short Woman in White Daylight Horror Never Found the Body Rule of Funny The Atoner Brother–Sister Incest "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Horror Films "Awesome McCool" Name Together in Death Chase Scene Fantasy Films Accidental Murder Say My Name Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Rule of Three Fate Worse than Death The Ace Only a Flesh Wound Bullying a Dragon Really Gets Around Reckless Gun Usage Heel–Face Turn Bad Boss Based on a True Story Lock and Load Montage Dies Wide Open Evil Is Petty Costume Porn French Films Room Full of Crazy Cool Car Ominous Latin Chanting Re-Cut Hell Is That Noise Posthumous Character Adaptational Heroism Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies It's Personal The Cavalry She Cleans Up Nicely The Hero Dies It's All About Me Real Life Writes the Plot True Companions Grievous Bottley Harm Meaningful Echo Laughing Mad Same Language Dub Documentary Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Fatal Flaw Nice Hat Abusive Parents Large Ham Historical-Domain Character Not What It Looks Like Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Big Guy Overly Long Gag Parental Substitute Non-Indicative Name Bare Your Midriff No Celebrities Were Harmed Make It Look Like an Accident Fanservice Animal Motifs No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Kick the Dog Jump Scare Fantastic Racism More Dakka Dark and Troubled Past Final Girl Silence Is Golden Big Brother Instinct Big "NO!" Here We Go Again! Word of God Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking From Nobody to Nightmare Storming the Castle Evil Counterpart Four-Temperament Ensemble Eldritch Abomination Mystery and Detective Films O.O.C. Is Serious Business Too Dumb to Live Politically Incorrect Villain Armor-Piercing Question Meaningful Name The '80s Black Dude Dies First Rule of Symbolism Pretty Little Headshots Award-Bait Song Cool Old Guy Superhero Slap-Slap-Kiss Drugs Are Bad Heterosexual Life-Partners Tranquil Fury Exactly What It Says on the Tin Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Those Two Guys Improbable Aiming Skills Sealed Evil in a Can Would Hit a Girl Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dull Surprise Air-Vent Passageway Heroes Want Redheads Stylistic Suck Expy One Steve Limit Deadpan Snarker Black Comedy Never My Fault The Place Dirty Old Man Hong Kong Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Not Even Bothering with the Accent Asshole Victim Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Flipping the Bird Groin Attack Alpha Bitch Pragmatic Adaptation Kick the Son of a Bitch Plucky Comic Relief Deal with the Devil Red Eyes, Take Warning Cat Fight Face–Heel Turn Domestic Abuse Those Two Bad Guys Covers Always Lie Sports Stories Shoot the Shaggy Dog No OSHA Compliance Fake Shemp Punch-Clock Villain The Chick Get Out! Enemy Mine Evil Plan Green-Eyed Monster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Stinger Leave the Camera Running Dramedy Wham Line Narrator The Load Brutal Honesty Nice Guy Outrun the Fireball Conspicuous CG Ass Shove Off with His Head! A Minor Kidroduction Guile Hero Real Life Hooker with a Heart of Gold Took a Level in Jerkass Expository Hairstyle Change Historical Hero Upgrade Serious Business Vomit Indiscretion Shot Happily Married An Arm and a Leg Red Shirt Nothing Is Scarier Mighty Whitey Badass Bookworm All There in the Manual Romantic Comedy Aluminum Christmas Trees folderlabel Fiery Redhead The Alcoholic Shell-Shocked Veteran Ambiguously Gay Only Sane Man Antagonist Title Would Hurt a Child Affectionate Parody Jerkass Ms. Fanservice Love Triangle Small Name, Big Ego Genre Throwback Flashback Plot Hole Reality Ensues Redemption Equals Death Dissonant Serenity Villain Song Berserk Button Camp Gay Almost Kiss For Want of a Nail Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dumb Blonde Pragmatic Villainy Animated Credits Opening Insane Troll Logic Red Herring Rape as Drama Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Zombie Stories Meet Cute Noodle Incident Easily Forgiven Annoying Younger Sibling Abhorrent Admirer Deliberately Monochrome Married to the Job Vacation Films Accidental Misnaming Composite Character Back from the Dead Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hero of Another Story Evil-Detecting Dog The Quiet One Bi the Way Love at First Sight Killed Mid-Sentence Captain Obvious Lampshade Hanging The Great Depression Silent Movie Stock Footage Bury Your Gays Chekhov's Gun Dressing as the Enemy Gory Discretion Shot Faking the Dead Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Horror Comedy BFG MacGuffin Unresolved Sexual Tension Took a Level in Badass Male Gaze You Have Failed Me An Axe to Grind Twist Ending Batman Gambit Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Historical In-Joke Brainless Beauty Cool Guns Canadian Movies Crazy-Prepared Sinister Minister Age Lift The Dreaded The Smart Guy Manchild The Remake The Reveal Drowning My Sorrows Translation Convention Darker and Edgier Bowdlerise Becoming the Mask Daddy's Girl Slasher Movie The Un-Reveal Mama Bear Parental Neglect Spared by the Adaptation Loophole Abuse Arch-Enemy Informed Ability Mistaken for Gay Even Evil Has Standards Naked People Are Funny The Cameo Self-Deprecation Evil vs. Evil Drives Like Crazy Friend to All Children Stealth Pun Jerk Jock Action Genre Biopic One-Man Army Character Development Eye Scream Anyone Can Die Adorkable Despair Event Horizon Demoted to Extra Badass Boast Cat Scare Music Stories Defrosting Ice Queen As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bland-Name Product The Faceless Television Movie Index Ghost Fiction She's Got Legs Trailers Always Spoil Anguished Declaration of Love Soft Glass Japanese Films Creepy Child In the Back German Films The Brute Mercy Kill Due to the Dead Laser-Guided Karma Disguised in Drag Shirtless Scene I'm a Humanitarian Defiant to the End Setting Update Death Seeker Affably Evil Foregone Conclusion Improbable Weapon User Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Freeze-Frame Bonus Slashed Throat Spell My Name with an "S" Anti-Villain Put on a Bus Blood Knight Driven to Suicide Empathic Environment Action Girl Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Truth in Television Be Careful What You Wish For Beware the Nice Ones Beta Couple Training Montage Throwing Your Sword Always Works Deliberate Values Dissonance Aside Glance Mugging the Monster Smug Snake Anachronic Order Shipper on Deck Super Strength Taking the Bullet Bittersweet Ending Hollywood Law Sassy Black Woman Pyrrhic Victory I Have Your Wife Car Fu All Just a Dream Henpecked Husband Made of Explodium Good Is Not Nice Bald of Evil Mr. Exposition Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Military Fainting Big Applesauce Manic Pixie Dream Girl Heroic Sacrifice Disproportionate Retribution Advertised Extra Ship Tease Fat Bastard Psychological Thriller Dirty Coward Woman Scorned Bond One-Liner Dramatic Irony Improvised Weapon Dual Wielding Parental Incest Film Series Badass Normal Frame-Up Famous Last Words Monumental Damage La Résistance Artistic License – Physics Recycled IN SPACE! Very Loosely Based on a True Story Sexy Discretion Shot An Aesop Scenery Gorn Pimped-Out Dress Blackmail Malevolent Masked Men I Did What I Had to Do Naïve Newcomer Not Using the "Z" Word Pay Evil unto Evil Sadistic Choice Disney Villain Death Kubrick Stare Up to Eleven Dutch Angle Race Against the Clock Didn't Think This Through Spanner in the Works And Starring Dramatic Gun Cock Brick Joke Punny Name For the Evulz Eyepatch of Power The Chessmaster Canon Foreigner Retirony Irony N-Word Privileges Ax-Crazy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Extreme Doormat My Greatest Failure The Stoic Downer Ending Failed a Spot Check Department of Redundancy Department Gilligan Cut Older Than They Look A Date with Rosie Palms Facial Horror Auto Erotica Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bloodless Carnage All Girls Want Bad Boys The Mafia Shown Their Work Have a Gay Old Time Madness Mantra Disney Death Big Eater Riddle for the Ages Public Domain Feature Films The Oner Jitter Cam Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Does This Remind You of Anything? The Film of the Book Jerkass Has a Point Not So Different Double-Meaning Title Let's Get Dangerous! Rule of Cool Hero Antagonist Adaptation Distillation Epic Fail Bait-and-Switch Combat Pragmatist Cassandra Truth The Smurfette Principle Guns Akimbo Early Installment Weirdness No Name Given Insistent Terminology Dark Action Girl "Well Done, Son!" Guy Attempted Rape Demonic Possession Only Known by Their Nickname Credits Gag Cool Shades Red Oni, Blue Oni Cluster F-Bomb Cain and Abel Retcon Wicked Cultured Scare Chord Badass Longcoat Badass Grandpa Contrived Coincidence Man on Fire Not So Stoic Cruel and Unusual Death Suddenly SHOUTING! Match Cut Needs Wiki Magic Love This Is Gonna Suck The Dragon Black and Gray Morality Agony of the Feet Shout-Out Continuity Nod Visual Pun The Lancer Kill It with Fire Made of Iron Evil Laugh In Medias Res The Lost Lenore Rousing Speech Mind Screw Apocalypse How Sci-Fi Horror Deconstruction Chiaroscuro The End... Or Is It? Bavarian Fire Drill Adaptational Badass Card-Carrying Villain Big Bad Even Evil Has Loved Ones Not So Above It All Psycho for Hire Chekhov's Skill Camera Abuse Evil Sounds Deep Homage Book-Ends Early-Bird Cameo Star-Crossed Lovers Fanservice Extra Framing Device